Wednesday, October 29, 2008

I preordered the Malabrigo Sock yarn today from Webs...two skeins. I had promised myself that I wasn't buying anymore yarn until my next girl's trip, but it was Malabrigo!!! Oh yea, and I also slipped and bought some Valley Yarns Bulky Berkshire for another Juliet. Oh well, just doing my part to help the economy. ;)

I'm turning the heel on my second Jaywalker out of the Crimson pride Lorna's Laces. Pictures soon!

Monday, October 27, 2008

Today I got my Trick or Treat Sock Swap Package. I squealed with delight when I saw that the return address was Yarn Miracle. Yes, that is correct, my swap partner was Emily. I was so excited, especially since, I loved these socks when I saw them on her blog. It was a very creepy spider theme.

Isn't that the coolest little spider basket??? Here is a closer picture of it and my AWESOME socks!!!

Next, I owe Anita a HUGE apology!!! Since I have been such a slacker about posting, I haven't posted about my package in the Dish Rag Tag. Anita was an awesome teammate. She sent me M&Ms, a fishy note pad and the cutest sheep tape measure and flower stitch markers. Anita even sells stitch markers like these in her shop. Anita, please accept my apology. My life just keeps getting in the way of me actually having a life and time to post to this blog.

Now for a recap of what has been going on. I can't believe it has been a month since my girl's trip to Mentone with the girls from my knit group. Diane very graciously opened her lovely home to us. I went with Diane, Wendy, Darlene, Cindy, and Ashleigh. Check this post on Darlene's blog and here on Wendy's blog for pictures. We had such a great time, but then how can it not be a great time with good friends, yarn purchase, knitting, fantastic food and then more shopping. All of the food was sooooo good, but special mentions go out to Wendy for the Wild Rice soup and Bibby for the Carrot cake (Bibby was supposed to go with us and was sick and unable to go and still sent us the carrot cake - Thanks Sunshine!!!) Grace was also supposed to go with us, but that was when she was having the Man Hands issue and had to take a rest from knitting. I certainly hope Diane invites us back.

Then two weeks ago, Franklin was at Yarn Expressions in Huntsville for the final official photo shoot of his 1,000 knitters project. Darlene and Denise both got slots to have their pictures made. So you know what that meant don't you?? ROAD TRIP!!! Me, Darlene, Denise, Jessi & Holly made the trip to Huntsville and oh what a day it was. We had such a good time!! And Franklin was just as great as I had thought he was from reading his blog. He is so sweet and funny. And he just fit right into our group. He was even admiring my Sparkle Monkeys (pictures to come later). Franklin's book It Iches had just come out (actually I think we got them in advance of the official release date) and we were the first ones to get our books signed.

Now for some actually knitting content from me.

Here are the socks that I knit for my Swap Pal Lisa. The yarn is Spunky Eclectic Tough Sock in the Scarecrow colorway and the pattern is Cedar Creek Socks by Kaci Kyler. This pattern was in the very first shipment of the Socks That Rock club. I've had the pattern for a couple of years now and this gave me a good excuse to try it. I really like how the socks turned and may just have to knit a pair for me.

I also finished my Juliet. The only problem was that it ended up being too big. Well my loss was my sister's gain because it fit her perfectly. I just hate it when that happens. The yarn was Tatamy Tweed that I bought at In the Making a couple of years ago.

I've also finished the first of my Jaywalker socks in the Crimson Pride colorway. I'll post a picture next time. I mean really, I did good to get all of these pictures posted today. I mean what do you expect out of a girl. LOL. Jessi, no comments are necessary from the peanut gallery :)

Lastly, the other package I got in the mail today was this month's installment of the Magnolia Society from Madelinetosh yarns. This month we got Pastoral which will be exclusive to the club. It is 50% silk and 50% wool and feels heavenly and the color is gorgeous.